Monkee Makes Music For Tv

NEW YORK — Michael Nesmith, a former member of The Monkees, has taken the techniques of music videos and incorporated them into a funny, relaxed half-hour of laughs and music.

Michael Nesmith in Television Parts is the rather odd name for the pilot that cound turn into a new half-hour series on NBC. It airs 9:30 to 10 tonight on WPTV-Ch. 5 and WSVN-Ch. 7.

Nesmith, who has grown into a slight, neatly bearded man who talks with a down-home twang, hosts the fast-paced but never frantic half-hour with good- natured ease.

He also stars in ``Eldorado To the Moon,`` in which he and a young female performer take off in a bright pink Cadillac that flies into space while the music hits a Calypso beat and dancers perform on its hood. That sounds peculiar, but it was fun.

Comedy honors were shared by Garry Shandling and Martin Mull.

Shandling did a routine about a guy with girl problems -- he just dumped his girlfriend -- after she moved in with another man. He has a date with ``Miss Maryland,`` who wears her crown and sash throughout the evening. He`s the kind of fellow who has been turned down by women for all kinds of reasons -- one even said, ``Not with this Falkland Island thing . . .``

Mull`s routine on Domestic Safety could have been better written, but the former host of Fernwood Tonight still can draw a giggle when he talks about your house, smiles with awful insincerity and says, ``You have a potential death trap.``